CHAPEL HILL — Through two months of the college baseball season, there hasn’t been much left undone by North Carolina.

Yet there’s some explaining to do for the Tar Heels.

Just how have they run off a 36-2 record?

“It’s not likely,” senior center fielder Chaz Frank said. “It’s very rare. The season is a grind. It’s amazing we are 36-2 with everything that can go wrong.”

The Tar Heels keep on winning, holding a No. 1 national ranking. They’ve notched 11 victories in a row going into a three-game Atlantic Coast Conference series that begins today against visiting Duke.

“Nobody sees that kind of record,” veteran coach Mike Fox said. “I thought we had a chance to be a good club. We’ve had some things bounce our way. … Here we sit.”

Sitting pretty, as they say.

“It’s pretty special. I guess we try not to think about it too much,” said junior pitcher Kent Emanuel, who’ll throw the first pitch this afternoon. “I don’t think I’ve been part of a team like this one.”

That comes, in many ways, because the Tar Heels have revved up an offense that’s risen to a level that the pitching staff frequently attains.

“I think it’s the different contributors we have offensively,” said third baseman Colin Moran, who’s among the country’s leaders in runs batted in (61) and runs scored (52).

Frank said it’s the most consistent offensive team since he has been in the program.

“In the past, we’ve had flashes of real good offense and then we’d go flat for a couple of weeks,” he said.

Last year’s North Carolina team hit 20 home runs. In 38 games this season, the Tar Heels have 34 long balls.

Even with all this, the Tar Heels compete in one of the country’s most-respected conferences. And they’ve played some notable non-league opponents along the way.

So losing only twice — once to Miami and another time in 11 innings to Clemson (both at home) — is difficult to comprehend.

“I haven’t really thought about it,” Moran said. “We’ve just kind of been on a roll. Just take it day by day and it has worked so far.

“I definitely knew we had a chance to be really good. I didn’t see 36-2 coming. It’s really easy to stay hungry, especially last year not getting to Omaha.”

North Carolina was projected to reach the College World Series in Omaha, Neb., when the 2012 postseason began. Instead, the Tar Heels didn’t make it out of the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament, dropping two regional games to St. John’s.

Yet that can’t be part of the team’s mindset these days.

“You’re not going to get to Omaha today,” Moran said, “so just take care of business every day.”

That’s been something that Fox said he monitors, but he hasn’t been inclined to adjust his approach.

“I’m pretty good at keeping our guys on the ground,” Fox said. “But I really haven’t had to do that.”

Catcher Matt Roberts, a junior from Graham, said the team’s work ethic has allowed it to have such a solid season to date.

“But we don’t get caught up in the polls,” Roberts said. “We look at it like since we’re there, we’ve got to play our best every day and bring our best. We try not to get caught up in it as much as everybody likes to make a big deal out of it.”

There’s so much attention to detail for the Tar Heels that they don’t dare veer off track.

“I guess prepared,” first baseman Cody Stubbs said of the primary factor for the success. “We talk about it all the time, being prepared.”

There are 18 more regular-season games before the ACC Tournament.

Fox said he makes an effort to avoid changing anything about the team’s routine when the Tar Heels are in a groove.

“If we keep winning, I put the same guys in the lineup,” Fox said.

The Tar Heels, though, aren’t invincible. When that becomes apparent, it will be a crucial time for the team.

“We’re going to hit a stretch — and it’s going to happen — and we’re going to have to deal with it,” Fox said.

Stubbs said the Tar Heels know the toughest portion of their schedule is yet to come, with road series at North Carolina State and Georgia Tech and wrapping up the regular season at home against Virginia. There are no regular-season dates with Florida State.

Plus, there’s the mounting attention that’s bound to accompany the Tar Heels should they sustain this rate of winning.